Exploration center on Jin Yong's novels to be built in E China

An offline exploration center themed with the most popular novels of Jin Yong will be established in the city of Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province.

The development project of Jin Yong's Martial Arts World's Whole Industrial Chain features, among other things, a film, gaming and virtual reality, which is a boon for many fans of Jin Yong (Louis Cha Leung-yung), one of the most renowned wuxia (literally martial heroes) novelists of all time.

The development project also includes an offline hall that offers themed experiences of Jin Yong's Condor trilogy, according to a signing ceremony held Sunday at Wuxi Studios, a national filmmaking base.

Wuxi Studios, Hengxin Shambala and China Mobile Games and Entertainment (CMGE) Technology Group will work together to promote the works of Jin Yong.

Richard Taylor, a five-time Academy Award-winner and co-founder of the Weta Workshop New Zealand, will serve as art director for the experience hall featuring the Condor Trilogy, Jin's magnum opus, said Wuxi Studios.

"It's so good to be out to celebrate this innovative collaboration ... to provide a refreshing new approach for such properties of Jin Yong, and this will enable the worldwide audience to have a chance to explore this and other incredible Chinese stories," Taylor said through a video.

During the ceremony, the Binhu district government of Wuxi also donated 20,000 surgical masks to the Weta Workshop New Zealand, as a good-will gesture to work together to defeat the coronavirus.